#EveryLittleActionCounts Week 27: Make Your Work Meaningful!
This week is a call to making your work meaningful! For academics, engaging in meaningful work is crucial for fostering a greater sense of purpose, and fulfilment that can enhance enthusiasm for positive change-making in their communities. Beyond this, making academic work more meaningful builds the foundations for academics to craft their careers based on their own beliefs, values and passions.
To do meaningful work is to contribute – to create value in society.” -Charles Koch
We can foster curiosity by considering the following key aspects:
Build relationships with likeminded colleagues: Join research networks and communities that share your interests and values.
- Volunteer: Give back to your communities by taking on volunteering roles in your institutions and wider academic networks. Volunteering can be an excellent way to integrate your passions and translate your knowledge into practice.
- Grow your capabilities: Seek training and development that can enhance and stimulate your interests and enable you to share your work, values and passions through, for instance, becoming a mentor.
We would be very happy to learn about your suggestions on how to make our work more meaningful in academia.
Anne-Wil Harzing & Christa Sathish